Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik

International Watercourses Law in the Nile River Basin

Three States at a Crossroads

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For more than a century there have been conflicting claims to the use and resources of the Nile watercourse, an essential source of water millions of people across eleven different states. This book examines the multifaceted regulation of the Nile, starting with the Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1902 through to contemporary legal relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780415657679
• ISBN-10: 0415657679
• Artikelnr.: 36332062

Autorenporträt

Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik is Assistant Professor of Law and Human Rights, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Book Organization 2. Understanding the Nile 3. The Nile Basin ¿
Development Patterns and Projections 4. Legal Regimes Regulating
Utilization of the Nile Waters: A Case Study of the Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty
of 1902 5. Geographical Scope of the Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty Undertaking 6.
Construing the Substantive Scope of the Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of May 1902
7. The Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty and Selected Principles of Public
International Law 8. Rules and Principles Regulating the Use of Shared
Water Courses: Analysis of a Non Treaty Based Claim of Right to Nile Waters
9. Customary Rules of International Watercourses Law: Overview of Riparian
Positions and New Perspectives in the Nile Basin 10. Application of
Fundamental Principles of Customary International Watercourses Law: the
Nile Context 11. Analysis of Factors and Circumstances Affecting the
Equitability of Uses in the Nile Basin 12. Volume Conclusions